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On day three of trumps presidency, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes – recently released from prison, where he was serving time for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol – was spotted eating lunch in a House office building after meeting with Republican lawmakers.

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America’s Golden Age? That’s laughable given the attacks on human knowledge, and the accomplishments of science. Clearly, this resembles the imposition of a new Dark Age..Whatever else we might say about Donald Trump, we can say he is an enemy of human knowledge. That’s quite a choice for Trump, and absolutely nothing good can come of it….Trump wants to usher in our darkest age, nothing “golden”about it….

Imagine: our president is an enemy of human knowledge! This is a renaissance??

www.vox.com

Researchers are terrified of Trump’s freeze on science. The rest of us should be, too.

Government support is essential to science. The Trump administration kneecapped it.
www.vox.com www.vox.com

Less than two days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Evangeline Warren, a sociology PhD student at the Ohio State University, logged into a professional development workshop alongside a hundred other young researchers. Just about everyone online was either employed by, or receiving grants from, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest single funder of biomedical and behavioral research in the world.

Mid-presentation, a senior organizer interrupted, informing attendees that the NIH was no longer “allowed to do any external communication,” Warren said. Without further explanation, the video call ended.

Warren’s experience was hardly unique in the first week of Trump’s second term. Hundreds of scientists flocked to Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter alternative, to report sudden, vague cancellations of long-scheduled meetings about government-funded science. These delays piled on top of a broader freeze on federal health agency communications issued by the Trump administration last week. In the past few days he has called for the US to stop working with the World Health Organization, suspended public reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and banned travel for Health and Human Services staff — all without explanation.

While briefly pausing communications during a presidential transition is normal, indefinitely disrupting the grant process like this is unheard of, according to several researchers at the NIH and NIH-funded universities. Rescheduling work meetings with a lot of moving parts would be a logistical nuisance for anyone. But when the memo comes from an administration that has repeatedly threatened to take down federal science agencies, a canceled meeting can feel more like the first step in a broader attack on public health and higher education.
 
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Speaking of the golden age, there was a another mass shooting, the guardian sites it as the 20th this year, not bad given that its the 29th of January.
 
Hard to keep track with all the decisions of our “unifying” president….

www.thebulwark.com

Move Fast and Break the Government

A blizzard of regulations; a power grab over federal funds; and the hollowing out of our nation’s public workforce. It’s just week two.
www.thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com

The breakneck speed of Trump’s orders could quickly turn into an acute constitutional crisis, with the executive branch essentially usurping the power of the purse from the legislative body. Certainly, it has already had profound political and psychological effects. Federal employees described utterly dispirited workplaces, where paranoia is creeping in. There is a belief that the new administration is set on turning the government into a tool for Trump and searching for the pretext to fire anyone unwilling to go along. It did not go unnoticed that the statement from the DOJ official announcing the firings on Monday noted that “Acting Attorney General James McHenry made this decision because he did not believe these officials could be trusted to faithfully implement the President’s agenda” (emphasis ours).

But it’s also not hard to see how the tremors being sent throughout the government could hurt Trump in the long run. It starts with small examples of over-compliance with the vague orders that the administration has to walk back, like the Air Force removing videos honoring the Tuskegee Airmen from training materials because they believe those videos violated the administration’s anti-DEI push. They move to larger problems, like prison guards who are responsible for securing ISIS militants no longer turning up for work because their salaries have been cut. And then they become disasters on your watch, like infants dyingbecause water was cut off in the foreign aid freeze.

That’s the thing about moving fast and breaking things. Sometimes you end up breaking things you wish you hadn’t and can’t repair.
 
Red said:
America’s Golden Age? That’s laughable given the attacks on human knowledge, and the accomplishments of science. Clearly, this resembles the imposition of a new Dark Age..Whatever else we might say about Donald Trump, we can say he is an enemy of human knowledge. That’s quite a choice for Trump, and absolutely nothing good can come of it….Trump wants to usher in our darkest age, nothing “golden”about it….

Imagine: our president is an enemy of human knowledge! This is a renaissance??

www.vox.com

Researchers are terrified of Trump’s freeze on science. The rest of us should be, too.

Government support is essential to science. The Trump administration kneecapped it.
www.vox.com www.vox.com

Less than two days after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Evangeline Warren, a sociology PhD student at the Ohio State University, logged into a professional development workshop alongside a hundred other young researchers. Just about everyone online was either employed by, or receiving grants from, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest single funder of biomedical and behavioral research in the world.

Mid-presentation, a senior organizer interrupted, informing attendees that the NIH was no longer “allowed to do any external communication,” Warren said. Without further explanation, the video call ended.

Warren’s experience was hardly unique in the first week of Trump’s second term. Hundreds of scientists flocked to Bluesky, a decentralized Twitter alternative, to report sudden, vague cancellations of long-scheduled meetings about government-funded science. These delays piled on top of a broader freeze on federal health agency communications issued by the Trump administration last week. In the past few days he has called for the US to stop working with the World Health Organization, suspended public reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and banned travel for Health and Human Services staff — all without explanation.

While briefly pausing communications during a presidential transition is normal, indefinitely disrupting the grant process like this is unheard of, according to several researchers at the NIH and NIH-funded universities. Rescheduling work meetings with a lot of moving parts would be a logistical nuisance for anyone. But when the memo comes from an administration that has repeatedly threatened to take down federal science agencies, a canceled meeting can feel more like the first step in a broader attack on public health and higher education.
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Trump said he loves the uneducated.
 
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Red said:
I’m sure many people who are Mexican nationals, as well as those originating in Central and South American have some indigenous heritage….Is that why this happens?

www.theguardian.com

Navajo alarmed by reports of Indigenous people caught up in Trump immigration raids

Group takes steps to protect members after ‘traumatizing’ reports of people being stopped or detained by agents
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No. It is just the opposite. The enforcement isn't race-based. This may be hard to comprehend for someone who lives in the northeast, but in southwestern Arizona, you cannot tell who is an American national and who is not by looking at them. Where I live is also like that. Most Americans who reside in that area are ethnically Hispanic, and in many cases, the people who are not ethnically Hispanic are those most likely to be foreign nationals. There are a ton of East Asian, Indian, Arab, and Caucasian (as in from the Caucasus area of Asia) that cross the southern US border illegally. In those areas, Border Patrol will set up stops, not too different from a DUI check, and want to see everyone's ID regardless of ethnicity.

Most checkpoints are temporary, but some are permanent. Below is a photo of the US Border Patrol checkpoint between San Diego and Orange County, roughly 75 miles north of the US border. If you are in a car on I-5 North, you get stopped. I'm sure among those stopped will be every ethnicity, because we're a diverse area and we all use cars.

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Red said:
Hard to keep track with all the decisions of our “unifying” president….

www.thebulwark.com

Move Fast and Break the Government

A blizzard of regulations; a power grab over federal funds; and the hollowing out of our nation’s public workforce. It’s just week two.
www.thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com

The breakneck speed of Trump’s orders could quickly turn into an acute constitutional crisis, with the executive branch essentially usurping the power of the purse from the legislative body. Certainly, it has already had profound political and psychological effects. Federal employees described utterly dispirited workplaces, where paranoia is creeping in. There is a belief that the new administration is set on turning the government into a tool for Trump and searching for the pretext to fire anyone unwilling to go along. It did not go unnoticed that the statement from the DOJ official announcing the firings on Monday noted that “Acting Attorney General James McHenry made this decision because he did not believe these officials could be trusted to faithfully implement the President’s agenda” (emphasis ours).

But it’s also not hard to see how the tremors being sent throughout the government could hurt Trump in the long run. It starts with small examples of over-compliance with the vague orders that the administration has to walk back, like the Air Force removing videos honoring the Tuskegee Airmen from training materials because they believe those videos violated the administration’s anti-DEI push. They move to larger problems, like prison guards who are responsible for securing ISIS militants no longer turning up for work because their salaries have been cut. And then they become disasters on your watch, like infants dyingbecause water was cut off in the foreign aid freeze.

That’s the thing about moving fast and breaking things. Sometimes you end up breaking things you wish you hadn’t and can’t repair.
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The big problem with all that is that Trump and his cronies do not care what the consequences are as long as the moves they make solidify and increase their power.
 
LogGrad98 said:
The big problem with all that is that Trump and his cronies do not care what the consequences are as long as the moves they make solidify and increase their power.
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Yep. trump has no skin in the game. If America falls into shambles he has the money to easily move to another country.
 
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